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hmmm... very odd that the common flowers square method didn't work for me today. had 3 different exhausted plants to recycle and none of them gave me a flower after recycling :-(
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@catgravy: i finally got enough common flowers to make the square and tried your method when recycling the exhausted plants and it works... thank you~! so hopefully i'll be able to get my sacred arboretum by the end of this year HAHAHA
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What I did (and this probably isn't optimal) I tried to split my space about 20/80 chests to everything else. The first two area you work to unlock are by far the fastest to do. I would suggest as you get the space to start saving gems. Even if your always merging them together to save space in the beginning once you unlock a extra area with them it really makes a huge difference.
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@Pjobooklover, --- https://ibb.co/RhhK5cm --- I took a screenshot for you and anyone interested. Certain squares always yield certain results. You HAVE to put the plant in the square surrounded by flowers. It HAS to be there before you recycle it. If it is not in this spot and you move it there after recycling it you will not get the results in my experiments. That square will always yield some plants, 2 copper and a flower. If anyone is interested you can PM me and I will add some more uploads of squares that yield goodies also. One square I use has 2 gems plus a gem pile each chest I open.
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@Pjobooklover If you look at the map on the opening island there is a small wooden looking object on the edge of it, upper right side. It looks like it is between two squares. If I go in 3 squares and then move up one, when I recycle plants I get a flower every time. Next time I recycle my plants I will try to remember to screen shot the spot. I open my chests in the same spot too similar to the plant thing. (sorry I have had a bit to drink rn).
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Try to knock out as many of the big squid at max rewards as you can. They will drop items to unlock your next tavern hero and lastly a fully upgraded gold chest (with the stupid event items like a bucket or easter egg) but they imprtantly will drop gems. Again wait till a energy event and open all your gold chests from squid event on the square that you'll aways get gems from.I found one that gives me 3 single gems and a single gem pile. Really really helps a lot.
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@aaaa1234321 Good job!!! Congrats!!! I'm moving at decent pace now. I have a surplus of energy and coins and saving every chest till energy events is a huge boost. I can't stress that enough. I saw a post a long while ago that said when you start out you have to make sacrififces. Once you get that first big gem and get some extra spaces life gets easier. I cant also stress enough find a square to recycle your plants on that gives you a flower each time. Same for chests - find a square that gives you gems and a potion at least each time you open it there and you'll be moving along with good speed soon. I tend to horde my rainbow potions but they are a good investment when you get near a max coin or gem. As far as keys try to build up a supply of them for when the squid event comes up.
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Finally lvl 35 without paying and without cheating! I built and unlocked everything except 2 milestones (plane and penguin). The game is finally over
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@FearlessDecoy I'm pretty bummed about no event but I just feel like I'm far enough it actually is part of my day now lol. This and NGU Idle, Idle Champs Forgotten Realms, and IOUrpg. I actually finished NGUIdle a long time ago but I still like to collect cards in it.
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Finally built up and cashed in the final big Gem chest and I honestly can't be bothered to spend the gems. There's really no point, I'm not going to grind out yet another material's palace, grinding out a new hero only gives another tavern request, and there's no new event. I think I'm actually done with this.
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Last time i had 86 chests I think for the enrgy event. I'm already at 32 rn - a dozen gold chests from the tentacle event - lots of rubies in those (I have a spot I open my chests only and usually yield 2 singles and 2 3 piece piles. Good gains imo. I just wonder how long it will take to get my next energy event? I don't want to open a darn thing unless i'm gaining more. Sitting at 4k+ energy and going to blow some on the winter monster now.
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@cordrym I have personally played Tropical Merge for over a year, and the Monthly drops are the same every year, so they are technically worth saving, but if you find they take up too much space and you want to sell them that is 100% okay till you progress far enough that you have the space to spare.
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@bud001 I dont pay for anything. You start slow mate but when you finally get going with some resources banked you'll be 1st place easily. I havent paid for anything and I have bought many islands by banking my gems.
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Another pay-to-play drivel. The premise is fun enough, but you will never advance smoothly unless you shell out Kreds or actual cash. I have to compete with people who throw $ after $ into the game and i ended up in 4th place, with conveniently has no price. Guess who actually got prizes? People who pay.
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Dang! I just merged a slew of gems and got me another two islands with about 50ish new squares and all those goodies :) F2P forever lol
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First it was sandboxes, then pastries, then junkfood, now grill stuff? What are we supposed to do with the leftovers? are they going to cycle back and get dropped again?
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I think it was in chat that someone made a comment to the effect of "once you get a stockpile of resources the game starts to move fast" and I have to agree. I made some sacrifices to save up a lot of chests and had to wait forever for a energy event but when it did I really really really good. I'm still on a stockpile of 2300+ energy and I nabbed about 12 rainbow pots. Find a good square to open chests on and stick to it. I have one that gives me 2 gem dust, a small pot, 3 silver coins, 3 plants, and maybe something else I forget rn. I'm still hunting for good squares but when you get into the loop of things it really is fast.
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hate the way you hijack my game force me to look at some stupid event you have. like a boat i dont care about. LET ME ALONE LET ME PLAY SHOVE YOUR EVENTS
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To the absolute surprise of no one, the in game Support System is useless. Right now the only fun I'm having with this is the Minesweeper knockoff.
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Alcazar's Secret in the Travel Book is ANOTHER "Doll House" event... so be warned in advance of more upcoming frustration, due to lack of space, everything spread out everywhere (so you miss some items when merging) and just the tediousness of the "exchanging" of items. Thank goodness, it's just a 7-days event. I'm now guessing that all future 7-day events are gonna be the Doll House type while the 20-day events will be the Dragon type.
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1692 energy with about 15 chests more to open give or take. I think I will break 2000 by the end of the chests and the energy trees going rn. I'll keep banking it slowly after also then burn it on the next area.
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imo finding good tiles is not cheating. Cheating would be opening 60 browsers to win every events with a ranking. So devs added building and shopping seasons that dont have ranking. They also made snail event that last 6 hours and clog your space instead of the frequent ranking events that only lasted 1 hour and gave great chests. Cheaters are also clearing browser cache to save gold and have insane amount of energy. So devs decided to balance Mythical Flower around space instead of gold and energy. No more blacksmith that cost 20k gold like in previous expeditions. Instead an atrocious expedition that is unplayable for free players that don't cheat and can't buy space.
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I hired an extra gnome today, and it was supposed to last for 7 days. I JUST USED IT. And now it's gone. What happened, and how do I get my gems back if it's glitched?
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I saw something in the discord about opening chests on certain squares because the square determines what comes out not RNG. Maybe I saw this a while ago in the comments too. I'm not going to argue whether it is cheating or not but finding a good square to open chests on can really speed things up. I've found 2 so far that always give me a potion and a gem dust but one gives me only pineapple plants lol.
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Finally got my energy event!!!!! 88 chests to open and those should be enough to push me past my current main building Crystal Castle.
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my travel book is empty for months now. I think they're trying to make expeditions that slow down cheaters like Mythical Flower but that are way less frustrating for free players.
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Mythical Flower Event: So when you're done with building the Airship to sail off to that far off land, you will lose 5 precious tiles space because when you click on the Airship Pad (4 tiles) or the Old Man making those lumps of coal (1 tile), you will get a message saying "You have completed this quest" BUT you can't get rid of the Airship Pad and the old dude. You can only move them off to a spot that's out of the way... :-\
So much land space is given to that smarmy-looking merchant that hoarding resources to build/merge faster is discouraged and therefore, frustrating... bad design... :-/
Yes, yes, of course I have the option to NOT play this event. I could also dig deep into my pockets to continuously shell out cash to buy diamonds to buy gold to buy energy... NOT~!
Sorry CleverApps... a fun little game made not so fun
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@XENON I think I am getting issues now too. I just popped 4 big energy boosts from my energy tree. I was at 168 energy, switched to the event island for a minute and came back to 0 energy.
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@catgravy I already cleared cache which didn't help. It just sucks losing the ability to play the game as intended after playing for about 4 months...
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Sorry to double post but would anyone be interested if I created a forum for us to chat in? Nothing fancy just somewhere we could post other then kong comments.
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Besides Discord (which I don't trust totally) is there a forum or any social area we could actually talk about the game like a forum rather then the comments section?
@XENON that sucks mate. Is this one of those games you can't clear your browser cache otherwise it'll wipe your save? (I assume no). Different browser? I use Brave and haven't had any issues (I don't fully trust IE or Chrome either and Brave seemed the lesser of the other two evils lol).
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@mgsprm: In theory, no, but you can keep building up the final buildings (like the Barracks) to get more and larger rewards per day. Only really worth thinking about with the wood line, the others are too time consuming.
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@catgravy When I merge items into better items on the main map and then switch to the expedition and return to the main map, some of the items I merged into better items have reappered where they were originally placed. The same thing happens on my expedition map. So all my tiles are always filled up, which makes the game more frustrating than it already is... :)
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I don't know if the game was updated recently, but my game is bugging out heavily, so I will have to stop playing, since the bugs make the game unplayable...
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39 chests waiting for next energy chest event. This is the most I have ever saved so far. Want to reclaim that space though lol.